Re: GNAT extensions, recompilation (was Re: what DOES the GPL...)

[rodemann@mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Joerg Rodemann)]

Ronald Cole (ronald@devo.ridgecrest.ca.us) wrote:
> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> > is about how to compile from sources -- indeed during the period when
> > Ronald
> > Cole was furiously complaining that he could not manage to compile the
> > HP version from sources, there was an exchange on chat@gnat.com where
> > one person who had successfully done this helped someone else to
> > sucessfully rebuild the system.

> Robert persists in implying that I was unable to build due to some
> defect in my understanding of how to actually compile GNAT.  I have
> been successfully building GNAT since version 2.04.  My "furious"
> complaint was actually that GNAT (3.09) couldn't compile GNAT: due to
> the introduction of a buggy fix to the patch file one is required to
> apply to gcc before attempting compilation.

NOOOOOO! Not again...please. I think we have talked this over already far too
much.

Yours

Joerg

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